Coming from a conservative family, her choice of an academic career and artistic pursuits over an arranged marriage was both brave and rare.

It was after her return from Slade that Anupam Sud developed an intense interest in exploring clothed and unclothed human figures through the medium of etching.

However, through symbolism and metaphor Sud engages with socially relevant themes, and moody depictions of interrelations between the sexes are a favorite topic in her work.

[2] One of Sud's best known bodies of work, the "Dialogue Series", expresses human communication between people of various sexes through a mood of mature, silent, acceptance.

[5] Anupam has often acknowledged her father's love for bodybuilding, Punjabi theatre, detective stories, her mother's appreciation for classical music and reading of the Upanishads as her major influences.